[PLUG] Hardware driving me nuts!

[alan]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Abit NF-M2S with onboard Gigabit and nVidia GeForce 6100 and 405 chipset
> Two 320 GB SATA II drives
> Two DVD+-RW Dual layer
> AMD-2 4600 64-bit
> Two 1-GB Corsair RAM
> Raidmax case, replaced PS with Antec 500 w
>
> Any time I have extensive disk activity I get a sudden power off, like
> pulling the power plug out of the back. I have run the Western Digital
> Lifesaver Diagnostic Utility on the Ultimate Boot CD and it ran all the
> way through (70+ minutes) with the hard drive light on constantly the
> whole time. No errors. But formatting a partition will power off the
> computer after a few minutes. So will adding a device with mdadm.
>
> I have replaced the the power supply and I have swapped the motherboard
> for a new one, but the problem persists.
>
> In the BIOS there is an option to shutdown on certain errors. I set it
> to "no errors." I think that applies to booting only, but I'm grasping
> at straws here.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a list somewhere of hardware faults that
> can cause a sudden power off? If this was your box, what would you
> suspect next?

Have you run memtest86 on your memory?

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